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Commentator of Neatkarīgās Rīta Avīze, Assistant Professor and Doctor of Geography, Assistant Professor and Doctor of Geography, University of Latvia. I'm working for the University of Latvia and in my spare time, I write articles for the independent newspaper "Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze" in Latvia. For decades I have been researching such topics as territorial systems, economic geography, logistics, and transport geography. However, analyzing those processes there is a need to also take into consideration National Interests and Geopolitics.

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Painful legacy of China's one child policy - BBC News The policy-making arm of China's Communist Party is meeting this week to hammer out a strategy for the country's economic and social development in the next ..., From YouTubeVideos
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 8, 2021
China's know-how on becoming the oldest society in the world Chinese government has taken quite a peculiar approach to identifying mistakes in their previous policies, but it isn't truly admitting these mistakes - as is the case in all authoritarian regimes. If the previous plan fails, simply improve it a bit and relaunch it anew.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, June 4, 2021
Communist Party of China - 100 years of censorship, terror and lies For several years now, it is rumored that President Xi Jinping is facing growing internal political disagreements that threaten his chances of remaining in power. None of these threats has yet come to pass, but the president feels that he is walking on relatively thin ice.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 17, 2021
China's export of higher education The West is becoming increasingly more concerned about the attempts of communist China to expand its global network of influence. Still, there are also several democratic states that are willing to closely cooperate with Beijing.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Chinas influence in Montenegro Montenegro is building its first-ever motorway. Due to a huge loan scandal, it's now become the country's highway to hell. 40 bridges and 90 tunnels are expected to be built and financed by the Chinese. However, the project has been hit by corruption allegations, construction delays and environmental tragedies. Today, out of the planned 170 kilometers, just 40 have been completed.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Latvian human rights activists condemn homophobia in China, Latvia and the world The issue of human rights of LGBT persons is like a hot potato - hard to spit it out, but also hard to swallow. Despite majority of the public having nothing against the LGBT community, people are afraid to allow them to have the same human rights everyone else has.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 19, 2021
Beijing and Kremlin unite to tempt fate and agitate US Not a lot of attention has been paid to similar displays of military force carried out by China. Although East Asia is far away from us, this can still be considered a test of the US' ability to react in two sides of Eurasia simultaneously. And if Moscow and Beijing have indeed coordinated their efforts, this will be a rigorous test of the US response capabilities.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 1, 2021
China needs to be tackled together The United States cannot tackle China alone - it needs allies. The US must cooperate with Europe, as well as with small and large nations alike. If all Western democracies band together, it will be easy to contain China as the balance of power will be equal. If any country tries to do this alone, it will inevitably fail.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Uighurs in Chinese death camps In the past years, the life conditions of Uighurs in northwestern China have become increasingly harsher: the Uighurs are being subject to systematic surveillance and tracking and they are being threatened to be sent to one of the so-called "re-education schools".
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 23, 2021
US must oppose space ambitions of China and Russia Russia's space agency Roskosmos has signed the long-awaited agreement of cooperation with its colleagues from the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). The agreement intends to establish a joint space station on the Moon. It is expected that Russia and China will also invite other countries to participate in the project, thus creating an intriguing space alliance to oppose the US and the EU.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 23, 2021
China to try second Canadian accused of "espionage" On Monday, China began trying the second Canadian who was arrested in 2018 briefly after the detainment of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada. The trial of former diplomat Michael Kovrig, who is being accused of espionage, began a couple of days after another Canadian, entrepreneur Michael Spavor who was also arrested in 2018, went on trial. There is no doubt that the Chinese communist regime has fabricated the cases!
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Beijing blames other nations for causing Covid-19 pandemic About a year after the first Covid-19 cases were identified in Wuhan, China is increasingly attempting to cast doubt on the origins of the virus and putting the blame on other nations, for instance, Russia. Chinese state media are more actively reporting about the coronavirus being found on imported frozen produce, which isn't considered a serious risk of infection by other countries.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 15, 2021
China is slowly killing democracy in Hong Kong On 5 March, the annual session of China's National People's Congress was opened - an event that was cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The session began with the proposal of several reforms that will have a huge impact on the already restricted democracy of Hong Kong.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 12, 2021
China soon intends to occupy Taiwan similar to the Crimea annexation scenario Considering the current geopolitical situation in Asia and the fact that Russia, weakened by Western sanctions, is only nominally a superpower, China will most likely occupy Taiwan in the following years.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The role of the 17+1 format in dividing the EU China's "divide and conquer" policy, i.e. its strategy to divide EU's joint policies by offering Eastern Europe one thing and Western Europe something entirely different, is facing obvious opposition.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 5, 2021
Chinese-style soft power US soft power once meant that the rest of the world dreamt of living like Americans. Recently, soft power is something attributed to China as well, but as much as all of us use Chinese-produced goods, no one really wishes to live in China
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Confucius Institutes and espionage "Chinese Confucius Institutes are suspected of espionage" - such headlines graced news articles a couple of years ago, but the reality is that everyone knows about it, but it's impossible to prove.

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